But what about the dialogue and stuff? I don't like to skip ahead and miss things.

Fucking SOPA scaremongering.

I can't download the file.

Look at the other solution.

It took a while, but I found a fix on another thread and confirm it worked for me. Here's what you do....

If you don't have it, download Oblivion Mod Manager and install.

Find your skyrim's voicesextra.bsa and open with oblivion mod manager (using the utilities button - BSA browser - Extract all once you find the file located in data of Skyrim)

Extract it into skyrims Data folder. You don't have to drop it into a sub folder.

Once its done, start it up and enjoy not having that bug.

No guarantees it will work for everyone, but I was forever stuck at the negotiation with esbern and this fixed it.

EDIT: If you don't have Oblivion or just don't want to install it again if it's not on your computer, use this below. Courtesy of another persons answer.
" got it working, using Junky's method but with the BSA unpacker.
Download in link: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3117 "

The new update seems to have "fixed" my being unable to enter certain areas on my larger save files.I still have the feeling they will come back.Has anyone else been able to enter recently inaccessible areas do to CTD since the new patch?

I seem to have gotten more crashes (once it quietly died behind a loading screen), though i'm guessing that's caused by mod problems with the newest patch.
Framerate is amazing, though; gonna crank up the settings now.

There is a fix for Esbern, I had the same problem but I fixed it by downloading and replacing a game file. Try looking at the steam forums, pretty sure that's where I found my fix.

You're supposed to give an Argonian chick living on the docks in Riften a healing potion for "give Wujeeta a healing potion" quest. I think Skald is the Jarl of Falkreath? Just go there and and talk to Skald for the bounty.

I can't find the Argonian anymore, I have nowhere to finish the quest at. The problem with the Skald bounties is that I have multiple instances of it and I can't collect on any of them.

It would be interesting if people expanded on cidhna mine, and also added more npcs to cities. So after the Markarth conspiracy quest there'd be a giant fight between Markarth citizens and cidhna escapees. Maybe even progress the Forsworn storyline so's there's actually an end to it other than "you'll see us again".

It would be interesting if people expanded on cidhna mine, and also added more npcs to cities. So after the Markarth conspiracy quest there'd be a giant fight between Markarth citizens and cidhna escapees. Maybe even progress the Forsworn storyline so's there's actually an end to it other than "you'll see us again".

Yeah, I always wished cities to have more people, right now they just have a few people and cities feel very small and for the most part dead, there's more guards than citizens.

At the start of the game, when the horse thief said he was from Rorikstead, I expected it to be a decent sized village, I was dissapointed to find that there was only like 2 buildings in there.

While Skyrim has a very large world compared to most games, it's still to small to feasibly support properly large towns. I sincerely doubt there's more than 100 actual people living in Skyrim's towns and villages.

While Skyrim has a very large world compared to most games, it's still to small to feasibly support properly large towns. I sincerely doubt there's more than 100 actual people living in Skyrim's towns and villages.

And yet a game like Assassin's Creed can simulate huge cities with a tiny world.

And yet a game like Assassin's Creed can simulate huge cities with a tiny world.

Tiny in terms of the amount of area you can actually explore and the distances between cities. The actual cities themselves are massive compared to Skyrim; one of them would probably cover the entire Whiterun Hold area.

it is atrocious that almost three months after release, there is still a game breaking main quest bug that the community has had to fix

Especially since tons of people are hailing it as "GOTY all years" despite the ATROCIOUS number of bugs and balance issues, not to mention how shallow the game's pitiful attempts at deep storylines are. And then the rabid fans say "well read the books!" I have read the books. Not only are they also shallow, but it is bad game design to literally force your gamers to read a book in order to get the story at all while playing, rather than integrating it into the gameplay and letting them experience it. It's not just an exaggeration that the game (and the rest of the series) is like "reading a book" in this case!

Despite this, I have poured many hours into the game in a desperate attempt to find the "perfect" character for me, only to delete the character when I blaze to level 40, have all of the best gear/nigh-endless money, and still have a shipload of quests to do. Not to mention an inventory that refuses to empty up so I can actually loot things.

Oh, and mods. Kind of sad when a game's saving grace is its non-multiplayer community.

Especially since tons of people are hailing it as "GOTY all years" despite the ATROCIOUS number of bugs and balance issues, not to mention how shallow the game's pitiful attempts at deep storylines are. And then the rabid fans say "well read the books!" I have read the books. Not only are they also shallow, but it is bad game design to literally force your gamers to read a book in order to get the story at all while playing, rather than integrating it into the gameplay and letting them experience it. It's not just an exaggeration that the game (and the rest of the series) is like "reading a book" in this case!

So, if I take my savegame and copy it to the desktop then completely reinstall my skyrim, will that remove my mods without blowing anything important up?

Depends on the mods you're using. Some of them create large changes that have to be properly uninstalled. Things like graphics or armor mods, however, should not cause this. Gameplay (and especially level) mods on the other hand, have a very large chance of fucking something up.